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RadioLabour Solidarity News 29 June 2017 _______________________________________________ G20 leaders told business should work with global unions Discrimination cause of pay gap between men and women _______________________________________________ This is a RadioLabour news update recorded on Wednesday July 13, 2016. I'm Marc Belanger. The business world needs to end its obsession with short-term gains designed to impress shareholders and start working with the labour movement to build the common good. That is one of the messages being passed on by labour leaders to the G20 labour and employment ministers meeting in Beijing this week. The G20 is a collection of the world’s largest economies. Its labour and employment ministers are meeting ahead of a meeting of top leaders scheduled for September. Philip Jennings is the General-Secretary of UNI – the global union for skills and services. UNI represents some 900 trade unions with more than 20 million workers. (audio) A UN agency has released a report showing that despite trends such as more women graduating from higher education the pay gap between men and women remains stubbornly high due to discrimination. The agency is the International Labour Organization. The ILO focuses on matters of work in the world. Its chief task is to recommend minimum standards of employment in pieces of proposed legislation called Conventions. Pete Foster of ILO radio reports. (audio) END And that’s it. International labour news you can use. I’m Marc Belanger. Thank you for listening. And remember: it’s all about global solidarity.